Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-18
SUMMER In EGYPT.
DELIGHTS OF EXISTENCE III THE LAND
OF The NILE.
How the Day Is Begun-The Season the
Natives Loye-Interesting
Notes

Notes.
Egypt IN summer IS commonly 81
10 be an unfit residence for Europeans,
but that is mistake, says the ~.
,James's Gazette, and one which would
lie less prevalent, perhaps, II it were
not fostered by foreign officials who
wish to prove that they need three
months holiday every year. OF course,
If a man begins the day with brandy
and soda and unlimited lemon squashes,
followed up by heavy lunch, aud then
retires beneath, the mosquito curtains
for a siesta until ) o'clock, he viii wake
up unrefreshed. II he then calls
carriage and is driven about
TIL dinner time he will probl-
bly only begin to feel alive about
u o'clock. He will not feel disposed
10 retire until the small hours, and Will
waken ia the morning as weary as when
he went to bed. This is o matter OF
course. for which he should not blame
the climate much. Compared with
Indian heat the temperature Of EgyptIs
refreshing; Tor. however sultry the day
mav lie, there is long cool night. The
onl " real trial is the length Of the hot
ason. A couple Of months OF more
intense heat would be much easier 10
bear than the steady gentle grilling
from May to October. But, after all,
an eyerago temperature of 90 in the
daytime ont Of doors which may be
reduced to 80 in the large native
rooms-sinking some 10 degrees or l.
degrees at night, does not constitute a
very formidable summer climate.
Ii is interesting TO study an entirely
different Egypt from that described by
the bundled and one authors who have
undertaken, at the solicitation Of their
friends. 4 record of their experiences.
There is perpetual delight in watching
tho slow and solid Use Of the mighty
Nile, swollen by the Tainsin unexplored
lands beyond the equator, rolling along
| It's thousands Of miles below khartOum
without Tributary, always giving to
the thirsty fields on either side neve
receiving. but ever flowing with daily
increasing tidc-truly one of the worlds
greatest wonders. Gradually it fills tao
canals, and, mounting its banks.
climbs softly mp till it laps over and
foods the landscape. till as far rs the
eye can Ie'cn i iIIli ny G,, 1--WE! nj, ~ ~ ~
their clusters of palms lie dotted here
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